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No. 626,90l. Patented lune I3, I899. B. l. GILMAN.

MEMORANDUM CASE.

(Application filed Mar. 4, 1899.] i (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

No. 626,901. Patented lune l3, I899. B. l. GILMAN.

MEMORANDUM CASE.

(Application filed Mar. 4, 1899.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

BENJAMIN I. GILMAN, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MEMORANDUM-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,901, dated June 13, 1899.

Application filed March 4:: 1399- To alll whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN I. GILMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Memorand urn-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a memorandum case or file consisting of a case or box and a series of removable receptacles or pockets contained therein, each of which holds memoranda, letters, documents, or other papers requiring attention on a certain day in the future.

The object of my invention is to make an improved memorandum-case in which each month of the year is represented by a removable receptacle or pocket, and each day of the month, except the first, (which is represented by a monthly receptacle,) is also represented by a similar removable receptacle or pocket, makingforty-two receptaclesorpockets,which are contained in a box or case preferably provided with a cover. Each receptacle or pocket has seven tag or marker holders or places of attachment for a movable tag or marker, corresponding to the number of days in a Week, and in thisinstancennade as thumb notches or recesses, each notch or recess adapted to receive and hold a tag or marker on which appears the name of a month or the abbreviation of the name to indicate one month of the twelve or a number indicating one day of the month, from 2 to 31. There is one movable tag for each receptacle; but the tag may be placed in any one of the seven notchesor recesses on each receptacle, so asto obtain a perpetual calendar and tell the day of the week on which every day for the next month comes and the day of the week on which the first of every month comes for a year ahead. Each of the receptacles or pockets may have a filing-index on the front part thereof and a letter thereon, in addition to the movable tag or marker, indicating the first letter of the subject-matter entered on said index. This subject-matter may be inscribed upon a receptacle kept elsewherewithin another, the latter being inscribed with a single number and theformer with a number of its own, in addition to the number of the larger. The number of the larger receptacle may be inscribed in the first one of a pair of the nar- Serial No. 707,718, (No model.)

the record of the subject-matter and the number of the smaller in the second.

My invention consists in certain novel features of construction of my memorandumcase, as will be hereinafter fully described.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my memorandum-case with the cover open and partially broken away. Fig.2 is a front view of oneof the removable receptacles or pockets removed, showing the filing-index thereon and the reference-letter, also the seven tag or marker holders and one tag or marker; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the receptacle shown in Fig. 2, on line 3 3, Fig. 2,1ooking in the direction of arrow a, same figure.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 is a box or case, made of stiff cardboard, or leather, or wood, or other suitable material, which holds the series of removable receptacles or pockets 2, in number forty-two, in a substantially vertical position.

The interior length of the box or case 1 corresponds substantially to the length of the receptacles or pockets 2; but the interior Width of the box may be made greater than the thickness of the receptacles 2 when made expansible and placed in the box empty, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, to allow of a number of memoranda being placed in each receptacle without crowding and binding the receptacles 2 in the'box 1. The height of the box 1 is a little greater than the height or width of the receptacles 2 to allow of the tags or markers 3 projecting up from said receptaerably has a cover 4, which may be secured by a ball-and-socket fastener or otherwise.

At the front of the box 1 I preferably provide threestationary compartments or pockets 5, 6, and 7 for slips of paper, pencils, the. Letters indicating the days of the week are preferably printed or pasted on the front upper part of the box 1, as shown.

Each receptacle or pocket 2 may be made as an ordinary envelop, open at the top, but without any flap, and the back extending a little above the front edge, as shown in Fig. 3. On the upperback edge of each receptacle 2 are a series of seven tag or marker holders, in this instance made as thumb notches or rerower columns on the filing-index opposite cles when the coveris closed. The boxl prefcesses S, to form holders or places of attach- 4 new position will be immediately behind the ment for the tags or markers 3. In this instance a band or strip 9 is pasted or secured on the back part of the receptacle 2,at the upper edge thereof,and thumb notches or curved recesses cut out, as shown.. 1 Each recess 8 is adapted to holdthe lower part of a movable tag or marker 3, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

I will now describe how my memorandum case is used. On any given date each of the tags or markers 3 bearing the name of a month is-attached to a different one of the receptacles 2 by that one of the holders 8 thereof which corresponds to the day of the week on which the first of the next coming month of that name falls, and each of the tags or markers 3 bearing a number is attached to a different one of the rest of the receptacles 2by that one of the holders 8 thereof which corresponds to the day of the week on which the next coming day falls having that number in the month. The forty-two receptacles 2, made to correspond in this way with forty-two coming days-viz, the first days of the twelve next coming months and the thirty next coming days numbered from 2 to 31 in the month-are arranged in the case 1 from front to back in the chronological order of these coming days and any memoranda, letters, or other documents which it is desirable should have attention on any one of these forty-two coming days are placed in that one of the receptacles 2 which corresponds to that day. At the beginning of the day following the given date above assumed that one of the receptacles 2-which occupies the front of the case 1 and which by the arrangement just described will correspond with this beginning day is removed from the case 1 and emptied of its contents, which will consist wholly of memoranda, &c., desirable to attend to on that day. Its tag or marker which. corresponds to the day of the week on which (if a month-tag) the first of the next coming month of that name falls or on which having that number in the month, and the receptacle isv then replaced in the case 1 as the representative of that new coming day in such a position among the other receptacles 2 as to keep the order of the receptacles 2 from front to back the same as the chronological order of the days they represent. The rules for thus replacing the receptacles 2 and shifting the tags or markers 3 are as follows: In the case of any niontlrreceptacle its new position will be behind all the other receptacles in the case, and its tag will be shifted one holder to-the right if a 29th of February does not occur within the coming year, and two holders if it does. In the case of the receptacle numbered 2' its new posit-ion will be immediately behind the next coming month-receptacle. Further, in the case of anyreceptacle numbered from 3- to 28, inclusive, its

. mixed up or lost.

or 31 its new position will be between the receptacle of the next month in which a day having this number occurs and the 1nontl1- receptacle next following this and immediately behind any receptacle there found numbered one lower, and its tag will be shifted to the holder next to the right from that occupied by the tag of the next preceding receptacle if this is numbered one lower, or, if not, then to the third, second,or first holder, respectively, to the left of that occupied by the tag of the next following receptacle. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that these operations, complicated in exact description, will become with a little practice nearly automatic. By this daily movement of the receptacles or pockets 2 and the tags or markers 3 the tags or markers remain in the form of a perpetual calendar and tell the day of the week on which every day of the next month comes and the day of the week on which the first of every month comes for a year ahead.

In the drawings, Fig. 1, my memorandumcase is shown as it would be on the 22d day of February, 1899, which is tVednesday. It

i will be seen at a glance on what days of the week the remaining days of February come,

also that March comes in on VVednesday,April v on Saturday, May on Monday, June on Thursday, July on Saturday, August on Tuesday,

. September on Friday, &;c., thus showing at a glance the day of the week the first day of each month falls on throughout the year 1899 and to February, 1900.

It will be understood that the details of con- 7 struction of my memorandum-case may be 3 is then shifted to that one of the holders 8 1 varied, if desired.

The advantages of my memorandum-case will be readily appreciated by those skilled in the art. (if a numbered tag) the next coming day falls i 1 or pockets a number of memoranda can be kept in place without liability of becoming By means of the movable tags or markers on each receptacle for the months and days of the months a perpetual calendar can be kept and each month-recep- I tacle answers for the first day of that month.

The filing-index on the front of each receptacle or pocket 2 and the reference-letter thereon (see Fig. 2) is a great convenience, furnishing anindex of papers and memoranda, not

kept in said receptacle, but in receptacles contained Within others in some other place.

The reference-letters are so placed one upon each receptacle 2 that whatever the sequence f the receptacles from front to back in the case 1 the reference-letters are visible from the front of the ease in alphabetical order from I 'claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An improved article of manufacture, a memorandum case or file, consisting of a case or box, and a series of removable receptacles or pockets contained therein, each adapted to hold memoranda, &c. and each having thereon seven tag or marker holders for holding a movable tag or marker designating a month, or the day of a month, and said tag or marker, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination with a box or case, of a series of removable receptacles or pockets contained therein, each adapted to hold memoranda, &c., and each having thereon seven tag or marker holders for holding a movable tag or marker designating a month, or the day of a month, and said tag or marker, substantially as shown and described.

3. An improved article of manufacture, a memorandum case or file, consisting of a case or box, and a series of removable receptacles or pockets contained therein, each adapted to hold memoranda, &c., and each having thereon seven tag or marker holders for holding a movable tag or marker designating a month, or the day of a month, and a filing-index on the front of each receptacle, and a referenceletter therefor, substantially as shown and described.

4. An improved article of manufacture, a

memorandum case or file, consisting of a case or box having one or more stationary compartments or pockets at the front thereof, and

a series of removable receptacles or pockets partments or pockets at the front thereof, and

letters indicating the days of the Week, and a series of removable receptacles or pockets contained in said box, each adapted to hold memoranda, &c., and each having thereon seven tag or marker holders for holding a removable tag or marker designating a month or the day of a month, and said tag or marker, and a filing-index on the front of each receptacle, and a reference-letter therefor, substantially as shown and described.

BENJAMIN I. GILMAN.

Witnesses:

E. HAYWARD FERRY, OURTIs CHIPMAN. 

